The Golden Spider: FREE Historical Fantasy Fiction

Enjoy this FREE series starter by historical fantasy romance author Anne Renwick where you'll unravel mysteries and defy conventions in a world where danger lurks around every corner. You’ll find forbidden romance, evil villains and mad science in these gaslamp and steampunk stories...Mayhem and murder endanger the foggy streets of Victorian London, where secrets and spies hide in a world of gaslamp fantasy.Lady Amanda blackmailed her way into a prestigious London medical school…Not the preferred method of entrance, of course, but necessary, for it’s the only way to force Lord Thornton, a professor at the school, to help her perfect her invention: a clockwork spider capable of spinning artificial nerves.And Lord Thornton is interested… but is he interested in Amanda, or simply the invention that could cure his own debilitating injury? Neither one can trust the other, but both know this: any attraction is a danger, any romance forbidden.But when a foreign spy steals the spider and uses it to perform grisly experiments on human subjects, they must set aside both their differences and their growing attraction to capture the killer terrorizing the streets of London.STEP INTO THE ELEMENTAL WEB!The Golden Spider is the first story in the Elemental Web Chronicles, although all books in the Elemental Web (Chronicles, Tales & Stories) can be read as standalones. Steampunk and gaslamp romance for fans of Meljean Brook, Bec McMaster, Gail Carriger, and Jacquelyn Benson — a world of Victorian romance, speculative science, and heroines who defy society’s expectations… all threaded with whispers of myth, monsters, and magic.